Buffalo

Buf·fa·lo  (bf-l)

A city of western New York at the eastern end of Lake Erie on the Canadian border. It is a major Great Lakes port of entry and an important manufacturing and milling center. Population: 276,000.

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Buffa·loni·an adj. & n.

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buf·fa·lo  (bf-l)

n. pl. buffalo or buf·fa·loes or buf·fa·los

1.

a. Any of several oxlike Old World mammals of the family Bovidae, such as the water buffalo and African buffalo.

b. The North American bison, Bison bison.

2. The buffalo fish.

tr.v. buf·fa·loed, buf·fa·lo·ing, buf·fa·loes

1. To intimidate, as by a display of confidence or authority: "The board couldn't buffalo the federal courts as it had the Comptroller" (American Banker).

2. To deceive; hoodwink: "Too often . . . job seekers have buffaloed lenders as to their competency and training" (H. Jane Lehman).

3. To confuse; bewilder.

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[Italian bufalo or Portuguese or Spanish búfalo, from Late Latin bfalus, from Latin bbalus, antelope, buffalo, from Greek boubalos, perhaps from bous, cow; see g^wou- in Indo-European roots.]

Word History: The buffalo is so closely associated with the Wild West that one might assume that its name comes from a Native American word, as is the case with the words moose and skunk. In fact, however, buffalo can probably be traced back by way of one or more of the Romance languages through Late and Classical Latin and ultimately to the Greek word boubalos, meaning "an antelope or a buffalo." The buffalo referred to by the Greek and Latin words was of course not the American one but an Old World mammal, such as the water buffalo of southern Asia. Applied to the North American mammal, buffalo is a misnomer, bison being the preferred term. As far as everyday usage is concerned, however, buffalo, first recorded for the American mammal in 1635, is older than bison, first recorded in 1774.

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buffalo

Noun

pl -loes or -lo

1. a type of cattle with upward-curving horns

2. same as water buffalo

3. US & Canad a bison [Greek bous ox]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	buffalo - large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains American bison, American buffalo, Bison bison genus Bison - sometimes considered a subgenus of genus Bos: American buffalo bison - any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns buffalo - meat from an American bison
	2.	Buffalo - a city on Lake Erie in western New York (near Niagara Falls) Empire State, New York State, NY, New York - a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies
	3.	buffalo - meat from an American bison American bison, American buffalo, Bison bison, buffalo - large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains game - the flesh of wild animals that is used for food
	4.	buffalo - any of several Old World animals resembling oxen including, e.g., water buffalo; Cape buffalo Old World buffalo Bovidae, family Bovidae - true antelopes; cattle; oxen; sheep; goats bovid - hollow-horned ruminants Asiatic buffalo, Bubalus bubalis, water buffalo, water ox - an Asian buffalo that is often domesticated for use as a draft animal anoa, Anoa depressicornis, dwarf buffalo - small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns Anoa mindorensis, Bubalus mindorensis, tamarao, tamarau - small buffalo of Mindoro in the Philippines Cape buffalo, Synercus caffer - large often savage buffalo of southern Africa having upward-curving horns; mostly in game reserves
Verb	1.	buffalo - intimidate or overawe cow, overawe - subdue, restrain, or overcome by affecting with a feeling of awe; frighten (as with threats)

Translations

buffalo [ˈbʌfələu] [pl buffalo or buffaloes] n (BRIT) → búfalo;

(US) (= bison); bisonte m

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buffalo [buffalo or buffaloes , pl ] [ˈbʌfələu] n (Brit) → buffle m;

(US) → bison m

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buffalo [ˈbʌfələu] [buffalo or buffaloes , pl ] n (Brit) → Büffel m;

(US) → Bison m

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buffalo [pl buffalo or buffaloes] [ˈbʌfələu] n → bufalo;

(US) → bisonte m

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buffalo

n buffalo [ˈbafələu]

1 a large kind of ox, especially the Asian and African varieties. buffel جاموس، ثَوْر бивол buvol bøffel der Büffel βούβαλος búfalo pühvel بوفالو puhveli buffle תְאוֹ भैंसा bivol bivaly kerbau bufalo 水牛 천庸Ò buivolas bifelis kerbau buffel bøffel bawół búfalo bivol буйвол byvol bivol bizon buffel ควาย sığır 水牛 буйвіл بھینس con trâu 水牛

2 the American variety of ox; the bison. bison ثَوْر امريكي бизон bizon bisonokse der Bison βίσονας búfalo piison گاومیش آمریکایی biisoni bison בִּיזוֹן अमेरिकी भैंस bizon bölény bison bisonte 野牛 아메리카 들소 bizonas bizons bison bizon bisonokse bizon búfalo bi­zon бизон bizón bizon bizon bisonoxe ควาย; กระทิง bizon 野牛 американський бізон بھینسا bò Châu Mỹ 野牛